Jan 13, 2013 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Education, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, International Space Station, NASA, Space Research
It’s not on commercial television, nor are the teams of high school students ranked weekly by the sports media. Yet the competition is intense as student teams sponsored by NASA and the European Space Agency and their respective partners compete for the...
Jan 13, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Commercial Space, Exploration, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Space Research
NASA’s dual human spaceflight initiatives, the Commercial Crew Program and an effort to develop a new human deep space exploration capability, are jeopardized by uncertainty over future budgets, according to the latest assessment from the agency’s...
Jan 11, 2013 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Pluto, Space and Science
NASA’s Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft has come out of hibernation mode to carry out system checks, as well as receive a new flight software upload and churn out science data downloads. The mission operations team at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics...
Jan 11, 2013 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra, Newsroom
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Jan 10, 2013 | Commercial Space, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Space Research
U. S. private sector astronauts could be launching into Earth orbit for the first time in 2015, ending a domestic human space launch hiatus that began with the retirement of NASA’s space shuttle fleet in mid-2011, participants in the agency’s three-...
Jan 10, 2013 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra, Newsroom
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Jan 9, 2013 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra, Newsroom
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Jan 9, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science, The Sun
Observations with NASA’s Spitzer space telescope and the European Space Agency’s Herschel Space Observatory have detected familiar looking asteroid/cometary belts around Vega, a young star and one of the brightest objects in the northern night sky....
Jan 8, 2013 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Space Research
Phobos, one of the two moons of Mars, might be explored one day by a jumping robotic probe. Marco Pavone, an assistant professor in Stanford’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, is working on “hedgehogs” – spiked, roughly spherical rovers that hop, tumble and...
Jan 8, 2013 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra, Newsroom
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